Science Support Offered in Dundee

CPD Directory (issued every 6 months)

• August-December

• January-June

Directory in 10 sections

1. Curriculum

2. Attainment

3. Learning and Teaching

4. Support for pupils

5. Ethos

6. Resources

7. Management, Leadership & Quality Assurance

8. New Beginnings (Probationer support)

9. Business Meetings and Curriculum Networks

10. School based courses

Section 1 (Examples from current directory)

• Environmental Studies in the Park (Ranger Service)

• Teaching Primary Science P1-3

• Teaching Primary Science P4-5

• Teaching Primary Science P6-7

• ECO schools

• Science through the window – Atmosphere

• Scotland’s journey –Earth’s internal structure

• Safety in Science P1-3

• Safety in Science P4-7

• ECO links to Science P1-3

• ECO links to Science P4/5

• ECO links to Science P6/7

• Investigations in Science P1-3

• Investigations in Science P4-7

• Science Resources for classroom assistants

• Environmental studies in the Park (Ranger Service)

• Tidelines – Exploring the Tay Estuary (Ranger Service)

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• Section 3

• Learning Together in Dundee- self empowered learning

• Learning Together in Dundee – Questioning

• Learning Together in Dundee –learning Goals and success criteria

• Assessment is for learning

• Formative assessment

• Science – Health & Safety (secondary)

• Integrating ICT into Science P1-3

• Integrating ICT into Science P4-7

• Learning Together in Dundee – Pupils as researchers

• Section 6

• Using cameras and scanners

• Textease multimedia

• Textease presenter

• QX3 Intel microscope

• Promethean Beginners certificate

• Promethean whiteboard –intermediate certificate

• Intro to Health and Safety in the Lab

Secondary Schools normally run their own or use outside providers.

Staff Tutor support

Types of support:

• Work directly with teacher/s in class on current topics

• Work with teacher/s on specific topics or experiments at mini twilights or during class release times

• Mini twilights on QX3, LogIT or other science equipment

• Help to organise school resources working with auxiliaries/ classroom assistants

• Assistance with assessment (Dundee assessment bank)

• School in-service as requested by staff

• Demonstrate resources/texts referred to in topics